Description: Allspice takes its name from its aroma, which smells like a combination of spices, especially cinnamon, cloves, ginger and nutmeg. Whole dried allspice will keep indefinitely when kept out of light in airtight jars.Botanical Name:&n..
Description: Cinnamon comes from the inner bark of southeastern Asian evergreen trees. After harvesting cinnamon bark, it is laid out to dry in the sun, as it dries, it naturally curls in on itself giving cinnamon its “stick” shape.Cinnamon has ..
Description: Bitter orange, Seville orange, bigarade orange, or marmalade orange is the citrus tree Citrus aurantium and its fruit. It is native to Southeast Asia and has been spread by humans to many parts of the world. It is probably..
Description: Peppermint is a hybrid cross between the watermint and spearmint plants. It has a long history of use as a remedy for indigestion, dating back to Ancient Egyptian times. Mint was so valued in Egypt that it was even used as a form of..
Description: The carob is a tree in the same plant family as beans and peas. Its pods have been used for food for as long as 5,000 years. Carob pods were thought to be the "locust beans" consumed by John the Baptist, hence the name St John's Bre..